Story by Alex Eleftheriadis, Vidyo
Google just announced that the upcoming release of its Chrome browser, version 48, will have VP9 support for WebRTC. This is an important milestone for WebRTC and Chrome for a number of reasons. To appreciate why, it is useful to look a little bit at the history of video codec support in WebRTC as well as Google+ Hangouts, Google’s popular videoconferencing app.
